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Emmitt Owens

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  • The WindowsXP Advantage: Fruityloops

    The Windows XP Advantage:  Why FruityLoops 2 and 3 Can Be a Powerful Front End  …for AI Music Written by: emmittowens.com staff / September 26th 2026 FruityLoops 2 and 3 won’t make AI music sound better by magic. What they can do is give the AI a source you designed yourself, built from a sonic vocabulary that modern software no longer hands you by default. One of the more… Read more

  • The Line Between “Using AI” and “Not Using AI” Is Disappearing

    The Line Between “Using AI” and “Not Using AI” Is Disappearing The conversation about artificial intelligence is usually framed as a binary: humans on one side, AI on the other. But that framing is increasingly out of step with how people actually interact with technology. A more accurate picture is starting to look like human-plus-AI… Read more

  • The Importance of Documenting Your Creative Work

    The Importance of Documenting Your Creative Work In the old days, a musician might keep a box of master tapes, handwritten session notes, track sheets, and a stack of receipts sitting in a closet. It wasn’t glamorous, but that paperwork could tell the story of how a recording came to exist. Today, things are different.… Read more

  • Now hEAr This: Buzzard Dust Mixtapes | Buzzard News

    Now hEar This Buzzard News’ monthly spotlight on the sounds you need to know. Now hEAr This is Buzzard News’ answer to the traditional music-discovery column: a monthly look at independent artists, unusual sounds and music worth hearing. Buzzard Dust Mixtapes Sounds like: Appalachian folk, bluegrass, old-time mountain music, gospel, country, Americana, and Southern storytelling… Read more

  • Transmitter from the Shitter

    Transmitter from the ShitterA tale outta Churntown, Alabama I. The Man, The Myth, The Outhouse   Now Rusty Eaton had wrote him four hundred and twelve songs, and he knowed it exact, on account of he numbered every last one in Sharpie marker on the inside of the outhouse door, right up next to his cousin… Read more

  • From Packing Heat to Packaging Bath Salts: The Strange Career Evolution of a Rapper

    The Buzzard Times From Packing Heat to Packaging Bath Salts: The Strange Career Evolution of a Wrapper Florence, Ala. — There was a time when he packed heat. Mixtapes. Albums. Hard rhymes. Loaded pistols. Hard attitude. He wasn’t arranging anything. He was moving units. He spoke like a man who believed nobody could touch him,… Read more

  • Abraham Morris – Count Them If You Can | Official Lyric Video | Buzzard Dust Mixtapes: Copper

    Abraham Morris – Count Them If You Can | Official Lyric Video | Buzzard Dust Mixtapes: Copper ⭐ “Count Them If You Can” by Abraham Morris From Buzzard Dust Mixtapes: CopperTrack 9Written by Emmitt OwensIndex #02092024 Inspired by Genesis 15, Count Them If You Can reflects on the moment when God led Abraham outside and… Read more

  • Buzzard Dust Mixtapes Opens Submissions to Independent & AI Songwriters — and Appalachian Storytellers

    The Buzzard Times Buzzard Dust Mixtapes Opens Submissions to Independent & AI Songwriters — and Appalachian Storytellers By Staff Reporter BUZZARD ROOST, Ala. — If you’ve been writing songs and wondering where they belong, Buzzard Dust Mixtapes may have the answer. The independent mixtape series is now accepting music submissions from songwriters, musicians, and even… Read more

  • New Music Friday: “Walk” — Finding Your Way Back Home

    New Music Friday: “Walk” — Finding Your Way Back Home By emmittowens.com Staff Some songs are written to entertain. Others are written because they have to be. “Walk” is one of those songs. It isn’t about perfection. It isn’t about pretending to have all the answers. It’s about looking back at where life has taken… Read more

  • Buzzard Dust Mixtapes: One Man’s Mission to Build America’s Largest Independent Appalachian Mixtape Network

    By EmmittOwens.com Staff In an era where independent musicians often chase viral trends, one project is taking a slower, more unconventional path—one rooted in regional identity, storytelling, and the culture of small-town America. Buzzard Dust Mixtapes is an independent music project focused on Southern, Appalachian, bluegrass, folk, country, and Americana-inspired music. Rather than operating as… Read more